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Happy holidays!! I can’t believe another year is gone.  I’m praying 2010 is going to be a great year! One of the holiday things our family did this year was making candy.  We made several different kinds and had so much fun!  K’s specialty was making lollipops.  He made another batch today of cinnamon, and […]

I have used coupons pretty much always, but I started “couponing” about three years ago.  Yes, there is a difference.  Before getting serious about coupons, I would go through the coupon inserts that came in the newspaper, cut out about half of them because those were the ones I thought I might use, and put […]

  For something totally different, we decided to go try out the Sonic Drive-In that opened a little while ago.  It was fun!  Even though it was the six of us (well, just five eating) sitting in our van with not a whole lot of room, we talked and talked.  Some of our conversation included […]

  This is the other “modified” phrase E3 uses that I would like to remember forever.  Life Savers candies are called “light sabers” and the butter rum flavor is “bubblegum.”  I had a roll of them in the drawer and she came to me and asked for a “bubblegum light saber.”  It just makes my […]

  I love raw almonds.  They are a staple for me; they taste great and are one of the most nutritious things I can eat according to my research (I love to research nutrition). *Warning, very rare rant ahead* Although, I can’t really buy them anymore.  The almonds I usually buy at Trader Joes say raw on […]

  We have gotten some of the best tasting mangoes this summer!  Sweet as candy and full of flavor, with very little of that tangy note mangoes sometimes have. E1 has decided they are her favorite fruit. On a photographic note, I was really pleased how this pic turned out- although a good macro lens is now on my wish list. I […]